But patients have long been able to check on one part of their doctors' background: whether they are board-certified.
Finally there were six questions about the demographic characteristics of the junior doctors (background variables) i.e. age, gender, years since graduation, current specialty, previous management experience (e.g. in a committee, or previous job) and previous management education (e.g. a management course).
Besides, graduates with a medical doctor background responded significantly higher than graduates without such a background, F 1, 397) = 8.931, P = 0.003, η = 0.022.
Surapong and Sanguan, the then NHSO SG, shared a similar rural district doctor background and were alumni of the same medical school.
Graduates with a medical doctor background or other additional degree appear to be more likely to change leadership after graduation (P <0.001).
The same group of institutions (KIT, INSP, and SPHUWC), F 5, 376) = 14.286, P <0.001, η = 0.160, and medical doctor background, F 1, 376) = 10.278, P = 0.001, η = 0.027, significantly contributed to differences in performance at the workplace, with graduates from SPHUWC, INSP, and KIT giving significantly higher ratings than graduates from HSPH, SPHFU, and UMST.
However, the point has been made since the 1970s that doctors' social backgrounds had an impact on the standards of British medical care [ 13] and decades later, entrants were still dominantly from professional and managerial backgrounds [ 14].
This is important, but the app will need to do more to ensure users of their doctor's backgrounds and identities, and seeing as there isn't exactly an enormous barrier to entry here, the product will likely have to evolve quickly to prevent easy replication.
Limited information about immigrant doctors' educational background.
Table 2 provides details on intervention and control sites including doctors' educational background and the services available at these sites.
